John Power (director)
John Beresford Power was an Australian film and television director, who began his career as a journalist.
Early life and journalism career
Power was born in Maitland, New South Wales. His older brother was Dave Power, a long-distance runner who won medals at the Olympics and Commonwealth Games. After leaving school, he joined the Maitland Mercury as a cadet journalist, later moving to Sydney to work for The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mirror. He was a political journalist in Canberra at the time of the Australian Labor Party split of 1955, events which he would later cover in the documentary film Like a Summer Storm.Awards
Power won the AFI Award for Best Direction for the 1974 TV docudrama Billy and Percy.Select filmography
- The Other Side of Innocence - director
- Like a Summer Storm - director, writer, producer
- What did you do at school today? - director
- Escape from Singapore - director, writer, producer
- Billy and Percy - director, writer, producer
- They Don't Clap Losers - director, writer, producer
- The Picture Show Man - director
- The Sound of Love - director, writer
- A Single Life
- The Dismissal - director
- The Great Gold Swindle - director
- Special Squad - director
- Return to Eden - director
- A Single Life - director, writer
- Alice to Nowhere - director
- Willing and Abel - director
- Mike Willesee's Australians - director episode "Clyde Fenton"
- The Dirtwater Dynasty - director
- Tanamera - Lion of Singapore - director
- Father - director
- Sky Trackers - director
- All the Rivers Run 2 - director
- Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After - director
- The Tommyknockers - director
- Someone Else's Child - director
- Betrayed by Love - director
- Fatal Vows: The Alexandra O'Hara Story - director
- A Child is Missing - director
- Heart of Fire - director
- Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure - director